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...Shwe Waing is a fine example of what may well prove to be a revolution in language teaching. What Yale is doing with Burmese, Malayan, Japanese, Chinese and-most popular of all-Russian, is being done in pretty much the same way with other tongues elsewhere: University of California (Thai, Annamese), Pennsylvania (Moroccan Arabic, Hausa, Fanti) Indiana (Turkish). Noise Guide. Charming, handsome Shwe Waing was a sailor; his home port was Rangoon, where once a soothsayer said he would become a teacher. Last spring Yale picked him off Ellis Island. Technically Shwe Waing is no teacher but a guide through...
Recent directives of Thailand's Office of National Culture: 1) tables and chairs should be used when dining; 2) unhappy husbands will please divorce their wives instead of beating them. Last week the battle for culture hammered at a new objective: Bangkok Radio instructed the Thai people to "stop sitting on sidewalks; it is not sanitary and shows a weakness of the mind...
...President, ten Cabinet officers, five State Department officials, five Ministers, including the Dutch, Thai and British...
...Thai Buddhism has something in common with Japanese Buddhism. If we Japanese can control and guide [the Thai] priests, then we shall not have difficulty leading Thailand religiously...
...command of all U.S. forces in Burma, China and India. Stilwell believes in getting close to his men; he was already referring to the Fifth and Sixth Chinese armies in Burma as "my armies." Those ragged, clean and tough young fighters chewed up a band of 300 queasy Thai troops near the Thailand border, routed a force of 400 Jap foot and horse soldiers south of Toungoo. Said General Stilwell...